Celebrate Labor Day a few days late with a worker’s rights movie. Discussion will follow and will show why Labor Day truly is a celebration of the American worker.

Co-Sponsored by the Social Sciences Forum, Assistant Professor Bernadette Olson from Criminal Justice and Assistant Professor Rhonda Wrzenski from Political Science will present information about the use of capital punishment in the United States. A discussion will follow.

University of Louisville Law Professor James Jones lived in silence about his struggle with mental illness for years while establishing his career. Learn from his experiences and why it is not necessary for a mental illness to prevent you from achieving your goals. Co-Sponsored by the Psychology Club/Psi Chi.

Celebrate Deaf Awareness Week by learning more about what it means to be deaf and how the lives of deaf individuals are about more than absence of hearing.

This meeting of the Student Involvement Board will feature a representative from Disability Services to discuss issues related to ability-status. This presentation will promote awareness and challenge myths and stereotypes about persons with disabilities. Come enjoy a lively presentation and discussion!

This training session will provide students with information and ideas for being more inclusive to those who identify as LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered). Students will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge and engage in lively discussion about issues currently facing this population. Free lunch will be provided.

In honor of persons in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) community, we are going to Embrace National Coming Out Day by wearing jeans. National Coming Out Day is a day designed to promote awareness, understanding, and acceptance for LGBT people and their supportive allies.

This year’s annual Student Leadership Conference will feature breakout sessions exploring topics in identity, such as ethnicity, religion, nationalism, and gender. Pre-registration required. Contact the office of Campus Life at (812) 941-2316 for details.

The Center for Women and Families has been serving the local community since 1912. Women in poverty and who are abused face special challenges related to obtaining financial independence. Our speaker today will discuss these issues and the work of the Center for Women and Families.

In A Country for All, Jorge Ramos sets forth what he believes is a point of common ground: that the U.S. immigration policy is broken and in desperate need of repair. But is it really? Whether it’s broken or not depends on what results it was intended to create, and whether those results are ones we still want. One historical theorist asserts that the immigration system we have is exactly what U.S. citizens want and have always wanted: a system of de facto inclusion, but de juris exclusion, with the flexibility to revert from one to the other when it is most convenient for the country. In this presentation, we’ll rewrite the points of common ground and explore the disconnect between the sepia-toned, mythologized image of U.S. immigration history — the one captured by the famous Emma Lazarus poem at the foot of the Statue of Liberty — and our actual policy of addressing foreigners in our midst as expressed by our legislative and court action.

This Common Experience movie is based on a true story of a teacher (Jaime Escalante - a former engineer) whose dedication and drive inspires his students and colleagues to strive for educational success. The setting of the film is an East Los Angeles Hispanic neighborhood. Escalante believes that his students respond to expectations and his expectations are that they can succeed. When he decides to teach his students calculus, the work and effort the students put into their studies pays off with success in passing the Advanced Placement calculus exam.

Acounty-by-county demographic and economic profile of the IU Southeast service region will provide a snapshot of the geography and prevalence of issues facing the working poor in our area. The presentation will bring David K. Shipler’s Working Poor: Invisible in America into the local context of the IU Southeast community. AREC students will explore the challenges the working poor face in meeting their families’ needs and will discuss implications for community development and public policy.

The Applied Research and Education Center (AREC) is a non-profit team of IU Southeast faculty and students that respond to requests from organizations to research, analyze, and report trends and patterns in communities and neighborhoods throughout the IU Southeast service region.

Graduate students in the Liberal Studies Program will present a program exploring the Common Experience theme from multiple perspectives: natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

This Common Experience movie follows the life of a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual as she takes an unexpected journey when learning that she fathered a son who is now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

Join IU Southeast’s Jacquelyn Reid, professor of nursing, as she discusses ways to kick off 2012 right with tips for healthier eating, healthier living, and a healthier you!

In The Black-Jew Dialogues, Larry Jay Tish and Ron Jones take the audience on a hysterical and poignant ride through three days they spent together in a cheap hotel room discussing their own experiences, the history of their people, and why there has been a growing rift between the two groups since the early 70s. Through their dialogue, the audience gains insight to the true nature of prejudice and how our inability to face our own biases separate us in ways that we may not even think about. The comic journey begins in the Egypt of the Pharaohs and travels through Africa and colonial times to present-day America.

Representatives and clients from AIDS Interfaith Ministries (AIM) of Kentuckiana will present about living with HIV/AIDS and reducing social stigma for people living with or affected by the disease.

Maxine Brown, founder the Louisville race-relations forum NETWORK (New Energy to Work Out Racial Kinks), will speak about African American history in Southern Indiana.

Two volunteers will recount their experiences serving in African countries. They will describe what inspired them to volunteer, how they found a program to volunteer with, and how their experiences in Africa have changed them and the people they served.

Discussion and presentation of Samuel Beckett’s dramatic characters as they explore the human condition and search for a meaningful existence. The evening will be devoted to exploring issues of class struggle and equality in Beckett’s stage work as seen through film clips and live scenes acted from IU Southeast Theatre’s upcoming production of Waiting for Godot. A panel of literary and dramatic scholars will lead the discussion and field questions from the audience.

The storyline of this film is a day when Californians wake up and not a single Latino is left in the state. They have all inexplicably disappeared, and chaos, tragedy, and comedy quickly ensue. This Common Experience event will take a look at the many inaccurate stereotypes of Mexicans.

On the National Day of Silence hundreds of thousands of students nationwide take a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying, and harassment in their schools.